Plato Quotes
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
